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Add MS 26942

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Add MS 26942
Title:
Responses of Isaac ben Samuel Levi Valle
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
68 folios
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Languages:
Hebrew
Scripts:
Hebrew
Start Date:
1700
End Date:
1799
Date Range:
1700-1799
Era:
CE
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Material Type:
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Legal Status:
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Names:
Abraham Joseph Solomon ben Mordekhai Gratiano
Giuseppe Almanzi
Leṿi Ṿali, Yitsḥak ben Shemuʼel,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/29145304371778570487
Leṿi Ṿali, Yitsḥak ben Shemuʼel,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/29145304371778570487
Samuel Aboab
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Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project

Add MS 26942

Responses of Isaac ben Samuel Levi Valle

Contents

The responses of Isaac ben Samuel Levi Valle.

Language(s): Hebrew

ff. 1r-68v
Title: Responses
Title: שאלות ותשובות

The responses were written in Modena on various dates in the earlier part of the second half of the 17th century.

Author: Valle, Isaac ben Samuel Levi ואלי, יצחק בן שמואל לוי
ff. 2r-16r
Title: Oraḥ ḥayim
ff. 16r-59r
Title: Yoreh de῾ah

On folio 25r begins an Italian document in Hebrew characters.

Folios 26r-27r contain responses of Samuel Aboab (Rashba).

ff. 59r-66r
Title: Even ha-῾ezer

The second response in this part is signed by Abraham Joseph Solomon ben Mordekhai Gratiano.

ff. 66r-68v
Title: Ḥoshen mishpaṭ

Consists of only one response.

Physical Description

Paper codex of the 18th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Extent: 68 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 210 × 160 mm.
Dimensions (written): 180 × 125 mm.
Foliation:

68 folios (+ 4 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning and at the end).

Collation

Quires of mostly 10 to 12 leaves each.

Condition

Slightly stained.

Layout

Columns:1

Ruled lines: 27

Written lines: 27

Uniform layout.

Catchwords on every page.

Initial words and section titles are given in larger characters.

Some marginal notes and additions are present.

Hand(s)

Italian cursive script of the 18th century.

Additions:

Folio 1r is a title page, folio 1v contains an imperfect table of contents.

Binding

BM in-house.

Spine title: 'Isaac Levi Valle. Teshuboth. Hebrew. Brit. Mus. Additional 26,942.'

History

Origin: 1700-1799 18th century Italy

Provenance and Acquisition

Giuseppe Almanzi (b. 1801, d. 1860), bibliophile; his manuscript no. 51: his library including 322 medieval Hebrew manuscripts were purchased en bloc by the British Museum in October 1865 for £1,000 through Asher & Co., Berlin dealer to the British Museum (see [Paisey_1997] 131-153: inscribed, folio [70v].

Record Sources

Manuscript description based on Margoliouth, G.: Catalogue of the Hebrew and Samaritan Manuscripts in the British Museum, London 1965.

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Surrogates

http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Add_MS_26942 (digital images currently unavailable)

Bibliography

    George Margoliouth, Catalogue of the Hebrew and Samaritan Manuscripts in the British Museum, 4 vols (London: British Museum, 1899-1935; vols I-III repr. 1965); IV, Introduction, Indexes, ed. by Jacob Leveen (London: British Museum, 1977), no. 581.

Bibliography

    [Paisey_1997] Paisey, D. “Adolphus Asher (1800-1853): Berlin bookseller, Anglophile, and friend to Panizzi.” British Library Journal 23 (1997).

Funding of Cataloguing

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